The Carpet and Rug Institute's (CRI) annual meeting in Dalton, Georgia, highlighted an industry balancing success with new challenges, from global growth to mounting regulations.

Bluefin has expanded the capabilities of its PayConex Omnichannel Gateway to support Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and Health Savings Account (HSA) payments.

Full delegate information including details of accommodation location is now available. [9 July 2008]

The University of Aberdeen Sport and Recreation department are able to offer all delegates preferential rates for using the Sports facilities for the duration of the conference. [11 July 2008]

Former US President Bill Clinton has told delegates at the 20th International AIDS Conference, AIDS 2014 in Melbourne, that finding more economically efficient ways to respond to HIV is vital to saving lives and preventing the spread of the virus. Mr Clinton’s speech was made to over 2,000 people at one of the most eagerly anticipated sessions at the AIDS 2014 conference in Melbourne.

Underutilised rail yards on the edge of Melbourne’s city centre are set to be transformed into the newest inner-city suburb - E-Gate. The 20 hectare site is equivalent in size to five Melbourne City blocks and will be developed into a new integrated community providing residential, retail, commercial and community facilities.

Teryl Rothery, who played Dr. Janet Frasier on Stargate SG-1, was not ready to leave the show in season 7. But here's why she left anyway.

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The posters, which appeared across campus, accuse university faculty of being complicit in war crimes against Palestinians in Gaza. The university president condemned the posters as antisemitic.

1. Manoj Bajpayee recalls experiencing starvation, would gatecrash film sets during lunchtime to get a meal: ‘Was shooed away by production guys’  The Indian Express
2. Superstars of Bharat: Unveiling Incredible Icons on HT’s brand new web series  Mint
3. This actor lived on a rooftop, starved for days, gatecrashed film sets for food; became one of India's biggest  DNA India
4. Manoj Bajpayee recalls early struggles: 'Gatecrashed film sets for a meal, was shooed away’  TOI Etimes
5. Manoj Bajpayee on perseverance, family, and following his passion  Hindustan Times

This actor, who once used to starve for days, gatecrash film sets for food, later became a superstar.

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Psalms 118:19-29 Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, and I will praise the LORD: This gate of the LORD, into which the righteous shall enter. I will praise thee: for thou hast heard me, and art become my Salvation. The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner. This is the LORD'S doing; it is marvellous in our eyes. This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Save now, I beseech thee, O LORD: O LORD, I beseech thee, send now prosperity [lit. wellbeing]. Blessed be He (Jesus) that cometh in the Name of the LORD: we have blessed you out of the House of the LORD. God is the LORD, which hath shewed us [resurrection - sunrise] light: bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar. Thou art my God, and I will praise thee: thou art my God, I will exalt thee. O give thanks unto the LORD; for He is good: for His mercy endureth for ever. -- Holy Bible

I wonder why we haven't read more about Håkan Lans's fight against Dell and Gateway in American media. Here is an excerpt from Peter Zura's post, Håkan Lans Is Back at The Federal Circuit (and Sweden Will Be Watching):

In one of the strangest, and most controversial patent infringement cases in recent history, Håkan Lans (aka Uniboard Aktiebolag) returns to the Federal Circuit on October 6, where the court will determine his fate on the disastrous enforcement effort regarding U.S. Patent No. 4,303,986 (Panel J: Friday, October 6, 2006, 10:00 A.M., Courtroom 203 - 2006-1070 Lans v. Gateway 2000) .

A prolific inventor and a folk hero in his native Sweden, Lans was granted the '986 patent in 1981, which covered Video Graphics Array (VGA) technology. In 1989, Lans agreed to license the ’986 patent to IBM. However, for tax reasons, Lans wanted to have his shell company, Uniboard, grant the license. To assure that Uniboard possessed the rights it was purporting to license, IBM requested that Lans first execute an assignment of the ’986 patent to Uniboard. Lans executed the assignment to Uniboard personally and then, on behalf of Uniboard, executed the license to IBM. Lans soon obtained licenses from others, including Hitachi, HP, and Apple.

In 1996, Lans sent letters to the computer industry accusing numerous companies of infringing the ’986 patent. The letters identify Lans as “the inventor and owner” of the ’986 patent, but did not mention Uniboard.

In 1997, Lans personally sued numerous companies for infringement of the ’986 patent. The complaint did not include Uniboard as a plaintiff. During discovery, the defendants found out about the assignment, and concluded that Lans had no business asserting the patent claim, because he wasn't, in fact, the owner.

And that's when everything started to unravel for Lans. (271patent.blogspot.com, 09/28/06.)

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I have just released GNU Gatekeeper version 5.3.

You can download it from https://www.gnugk.org/h323download.html

This release has a number of new features as well as some important bug
fixes.

Whats new ?

• LRQ loop detection to optimize calls flows between multiple neighbor gatekeepers This new feature has the potential to significantly reduce the load on all gatekeepers and prevent "LRQ storms".
• new routing policy to set call destinations by querying HTTP or REST servers, see [Routing::Http]
• much improved support for SNMP
• important bug fix for TLS encryption of signaling channels
• important bug fixes for H.460.18 NAT traversal (for H.245 tunneling and for multi-homed servers)
• performance optimization: this version can handle 5-10% more proxied  calls on the same hardware
• performance optimization: re-authenticate lightweight, additive registrations only when new aliases differ. This significantly reduces the load on password databases.

Enjoy!


Full change log:

- BUGFIX(ProxyChannel.cxx) don't send H.245 address to tunneling
  H.460.18 endpoint, breaks call when H.245 multiplexing
- performance optimization: 5% faster UDP handling
- changed default: [SNMP] Implementation=PTlib
- remove unfinished Windows-SNMP implementation, use PTLib-SNMP on Windows
- support SET and GET-NEXT in PTLib-SNMP
- support SNMP sysUpTime when running as standalone agent
- BUGFIX(configure.in) LARGE_FDSET defaults to off
- new SNMP OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.27938.11.1.9 to query total bandwidth allocated to ongoing calls
- BUGFIX(ProxyChannel.cxx) fix hangup when making many TLS calls quickly one after another
- BUGFIX(RasSrv.cxx) don't require H.460.22 parameters in ARQs
- BUGFIX(ProxyChannel.cxx) fix TLS without LARGE_FDSET
- BUGFIX(ProxyChannel.cxx) don't send H.460.22 priority field in SCI
- BUGFIX(gkauth.cxx) free memory from cached and expired passwords
- re-authenticate lightweight, additive registrations only when new aliases differ
- remove switch [Proxy]DisableRTPQueueing, always disabled now
- new routing policy: http with config section [Routing::Http]
- BUGFIX(ProxyChannel.cxx) fix H.460.18 on multi-homed servers (SCI comes from the correct IP now)
- new switch to disable SNMP traps [SNMP] EnableTraps=0
- BUGFIX(ProxyChannel.cxx) don't throw SNMP trap on H.245 connection errors
  (causes crash under load with Net-SNMP)
- BUGFIX(snmp.cxx) shutdown GnuGk when SNMP agent can't be started
- BUGFIX(snmp.cxx) protect NetSNMP library calls with mutex
- changed default: ForwardResponse now defaults to 1 in [RasSrv::LRQFeatures] and [Neighbor::...]
- new feature: loop detection for LRQs [RasSrv::LRQFeatures] LoopDetection=1
- BUGFIX(Neighbor.cxx) some settings in [RasSrv::LRQFeatures] were ignored if not set in [Neighbor::...]

I am happy to announce the release of GNU Gatekeeper 5.4.

You can download it from https://www.gnugk.org/h323download.html

New features:

• new accounting module to send accounting data to an MQTT server
• support for redis as database (eg. as backend for password storage)

Bug fixes:

• important fix for H.245 tunneling translation with H.460.18 endpoints
• fix for snmpwalk in PTLib-SNMP implementation
• fix sending alternate gatekeeper list to endpoints with assigned gatekeeper
• improved DRQ from child gatekeepers
• fix TLS with neighbor gatekeeper

Please also note that a bug has been found in PTLib that can cause a crash in any GnuGk version if you use the status port (manually of from an application). Please upgrade to PTLib 2.10.9.3!

I am happy to announce the release of GNU Gatekeeper 5.5.

This release has new features and bug fixes when you run clustered gatekeepers. It also improves the port detection feature and we have a complete and up to date Chinese documentation.

You can download it from https://www.gnugk.org/h323download.html

New features:

• new feature GnuGkAssignedGatekeeper to push endpoints back to their intended home gatekeepers in the cluster, even if the endpoints don't support assigned gatekeepers
• support new PBKDF2 password hashes for ssh logins to the status port
• new switches to fine tune port detection for H.239 channels (IgnoreSignaledPublicH239IPsFrom=x and IgnoreSignaledAllH239IPs=1)
• new Chinese manual

Bug fixes:

• select correct source IP for neighbor pings
• set altGKisPermanent=true when redirecting endpoints
• fix RRJ to include alternates when RedirectGK=Endpoints limit is reached
• fix reading of AllowSignaledIPs= switch
• don't complain about [Neighbor::xxx] SendAliases switch when using--strict

Enjoy!

Today GNU Gatekeeper version 5.6 has  been released.

Download: https://www.gnugk.org/h323download.html

It contains an important bug fix to H.460.19 multiplexing and H.460.26 (media over TCP) when using GnuGk's internal call forwarding (ForwadOnFacility).

I have also added an interop tweak to be able to call video services that don't understand H.323 URL aliases (eg. videobutler.nl). You can enable it with

Most H.323 vendors did not implement encrypting the signaling connection with TLS. They only encrypt the media (RTP). But you can use the two GNU Gatekeepers to encrypt you call signaling even when your endpoints don't support this natively.

Suppose you have 2 locations and want to connect them securely over the public internet.

GnuGk can encrypt call signalling between those locations using TLS and encrypt the media (RTP) using H.235.6 (AES encryption). 

 Configuration for GNU Gatekeeper 1 (prefix 01)

 

[Gatekeeper::Main]

[RoutedMode]
GKRouted=1
H245Routed=1
CallSignalPort=1720
AcceptUnregisteredCalls=1
; make sure H.245 gets tunneled for TLS
H245TunnelingTranslation=1
; add AES media encryption if the endpoint doesn't encrypt itself
EnableH235HalfCallMedia=1
; only allow encrypted calls
RequireH235HalfCallMedia=1
; change the media key after 2^31 operations
EnableH235HalfCallMediaKeyUpdates=1

[Proxy]
Enable=1

[ModeSelection]
0.0.0.0/0=PROXY
; only use routed mode for local calls
192.168.0.0/18=H245ROUTED

[TLS]
EnableTLS=1
PrivateKey=/path/to/server.pem
Certificates=/path/to/server.pem
CAFile=/path/to/rootcert.pem
Passphrase=MySecret
CheckCertificateIP=1

[Gatekeeper::Auth]
FileIPAuth=required;Setup

[FileIPAuth]
; allow all calls from local network
192.168.1.0/24=allow
; only allow TLS encrypted and authenticated calls from elsewhere
any=onlyTLS

[RasSrv::PermanentEndpoints]
; the GnuGk in the other location, serving prefix 02
1.2.3.4:1300=remote-gw;02

[EP::remote-gw]
; use TLS to call remote GnuGk
UseTLS=1 

Configuration for GNU Gatekeeper 2 (prefix 02)

[Gatekeeper::Main]

[RoutedMode]
GKRouted=1
H245Routed=1
CallSignalPort=1720
AcceptUnregisteredCalls=1
; make sure H.245 gets tunneled for TLS
H245TunnelingTranslation=1
; add AES media encryption if the endpoint doesn't encrypt itself
EnableH235HalfCallMedia=1
; only allow encrypted calls
RequireH235HalfCallMedia=1
; change the media key after 2^31 operations
EnableH235HalfCallMediaKeyUpdates=1

[Proxy]
Enable=1

[ModeSelection]
0.0.0.0/0=PROXY
; only use routed mode for local calls
192.168.0.0/18=H245ROUTED

[TLS]
EnableTLS=1
PrivateKey=/path/to/server.pem
Certificates=/path/to/server.pem
CAFile=/path/to/rootcert.pem
Passphrase=MySecret
CheckCertificateIP=1

[Gatekeeper::Auth]
FileIPAuth=required;Setup

[FileIPAuth]
; allow all calls from local network
192.168.1.0/24=allow
; only allow TLS encrypted and authenticated calls from elsewhere
any=onlyTLS

[RasSrv::PermanentEndpoints]
; the GnuGk in the other location, serving prefix 01
1.2.3.5:1300=remote-gw;01

[EP::remote-gw]
; use TLS to call remote GnuGk
UseTLS=1 

Other options

You could also configure the remote GNU Gatekeeper as a neighbor, but beware that the RAS traffic between neighbors will show meta data (whois is caling who) in clear text! 

See the GnuGk manual section on TLS for more details and examples how to generate the OpenSSL certificates. 

 

GNU Gatekeeper version 5.7 has some important bug fixes, improves interoperability
with other vendors and also has a few new features.
 

Several severe crashes and a few memory leaks have been fixed.

Improved interoperability with:

• Lifesize endpoints
• Poly's Microsoft Teams gateway
• Polycom RealPresence Capture Server

New features:

• You get a warning in the GUI / on the status port if one of your endpoints has an incorrect time setting and this password authentication fails. This makes trouble shooting a lot easier.
• Invalid TPKT packets (eg. due to network errors) now don't necessarily take down an otherwise healthy call. Use the new  AbortOnInvalidTPKT=0 switch to enable.
• GnuGk will now also return unused memory back to the OS periodically to make it available again to other applications on the same server.
  
• You have a new %{Vendor} variable for SqlAuth RegQuerys and LuaAuth

Full change log:

- BUGFIX(ProxyChannel.cxx) fix crash on non-standard H.245 Indication from
  Polycom RealPresence Capture Server
- BUGFIX(ProxyChannel.cxx) fix possible crashes on non-standard generic information in OLCs
- print warning message on status port when passwords get rejected due to wrong time
- BUGFIX(httpacct.cxx) fix memory leak
- BUGFIX(ProxyChannel.cxx) fix possible crash
- BUGFIX(gk.cxx) avoid crash when terminating in the middle of program startup,
  set non-zero exit code so restarter notices error
- return unused memory back to OS periodically
- new switch: [RoutedMode] AbortOnInvalidTPKT=0 for more graceful handling of network errors
- BUGFIX(gk.cxx) fix for running on Alpine Linux (needs updated PTLib, too)
- don't start GnuGk if RTP multiplexing is configured, but we can't start the listener
- new switch: [RoutedMode] MatchH239SessionsByType=0 to fix presentations with
  LifeSize endpoints over Poly's Microsoft Teams gateway
- BUGFIX(ProxyChannel.cxx) make sure we don't set RTP address on multiplexed RTCP keepalive
- BUGFIX(RasSrv.cxx) look at all tokens for H.235.TSSM
- add %{Vendor} variable for SqlAuth RegQuery and LuaAuth

GNU Gatekeeper version 5.8 has been released with a number of bug fixes and a few new features.

To stay updated on new releases, please also follow us on Twitter!

Improved interoperability with:

• EdgeProtect
• Avaya
  

 New features:

• experimental support for Avaya's non-standard version of H.323 (./configure --enable-avaya) (thanks Konstantin Prokazov)
• consider RFC 6598 shared network space (100.64.0.0/10) and Zeroconf (169.254.0.0/16) as private IPs
  
• new switch [Proxy] AllowSignaledIPsFrom= to skip auto-detect for messages received directly from certain IPs when IgnoreSignaledIPs=1
• new switch [Proxy] AllowAnyRTPSourcePortForH239From= to handle incorrect RTCP addresses in H.239 OLC (EdgeProtect interop)
• new switch [RoutedMode] MatchH239SessionsByIDOnly= to never attempt to match a H.239 reverse channel by type for improved interoperability with EdgeProtect
• new switches to set the HTTP Content-Type header in HttpAcct, HttpPasswordAuth and Routing::Http
• new switch [Routing::Http] JSONResponse=1 to send more flexible routing data in the HTML reponses
• many new status port shortcuts (see manual section for details)

Bug fixes:

• fix H.460.18/.19 on multi-homed servers
• fix race condition when handling H.460.19 multiplex IDs
• fix media loop on half port-detected channel when media is very early
• fix Net-SNMP query for total bandwidth
• save RTCP address from OLC for port-detection
• always check AllowSignaledIPs= before applying IgnoreSignaledAllH239IPs or IgnoreSignaledPrivateH239IPs
• handle extensions and CSRC in RTP header with H.235 half-call media
• better endpointIDs on Windows when compiling without OpenSSL

GNU Gatekeeper version 5.9 is out with a number of bug fixes and a few new features.

Download: https://www.gnugk.org/h323download.html

New features:

• new switches [Proxy] CachePortDetection=1 and CachePortDetectionDuration= to cache port detection packets for faster media connects when IgnoreSignaledIPs= is active
  
• new switch: [EP::] ForceTerminalType=
• new place holder for port notifications: %t for port type
• experimental: better error recovery if multiplexed RTP sending fails

Please note that Radius support is disabled by default now. You can enable it with the --enable-radius switch when running configure.

Bug fixes:

• fix bug in port detection with AllowSignaledIPsFrom=
• when DNS name resolves to IP without alias, remove alias from ACF completely (Cisco interop)
• remove RTP session 0 from internal tables once H.245 master has assigned a session ID
• fix compilation of Avaya support
• initialized cmsg struct to zero before using
• fix regression introduced with MatchH239SessionsByIDOnly= switch

 

GNU Gatekeeper version 5.10 has been released.

Download: https://www.gnugk.org/h323download.html

This is a bug fix release.

Bugs fixed:

• fix a crash when handling the MasterSlaveDetermination message
  
• fix the documentation of [RasSrv::LRQFeatures] NeighborTimeout and consistently treat the value as 10th of a second in the program
  

GNU Gatekeeper version 5.11 has been released.

Download: https://www.gnugk.org/h323download.html

This is a bug fix release with a few new features added.

An important bug in the handling of the ExternalIP switch has been fixed.

We also added a few features that make it easier to use GnuGk with Graphana and InfluxDB monitoring.

Changes and additions:

• remove non-working command line switch -e / --externalip, use config file to set ExternalIP
• new accounting variables %{registrations}, %{calls}, %{total-calls}, %{successful-calls}, %{allocated-bandwidth}
• new switch [HttpAcct] Authorization= to send authorization headers to support InfluxDB
• replace and in HttpAcct body with carriage return and line feed characters
• new switch: [RasSrv::LRQFeatures] PreserveDestination=1 (helpful when calling Pexip servers)

 GNU Gatekeeper version 5.12 has been released.

Download: https://www.gnugk.org/h323downldad.html

This is a bug fix release with a few new features added.

Another important bug in the handling of the ExternalIP switch has been fixed as well as Y2K38 issues.

This release also adds features:

• support for Oracle databases
• easier cloud deployment with IP detection with STUN
• better load scaling by mixing proxied with direct mode endpoints in a single gatekeeper
• Windows 64bit executables with VS2022

Full list of changes:

• enable more runtime hardening flags from OpenSSF recommendation 11/2023
• fix bug with H.245 address when using ExternalIP= switch without H.460.18/.19
• auto-detect public IP with ExternalIP=STUN and STUNServer=stun.example.com
• compiler support for VS2022
• new database driver for Oracle and new timestamp format 'Oracle'
• new switch [EP::xxx] ForceDirectMode=1 to handle all calls from this endpoint in direct mode
• BUGFIX(RasSrv.cxx, gkauth.cxx) make sure time_t is handled unsigned to avoid Y2K38 issue
• BUGFIX(ProxyChannel.cxx) check for too small packets when acting as encryption proxy

 

GNU Gatekeeper version 5.13 has been released.

Download: https://www.gnugk.org/h323download.html

This is a bug fix release with a no new features added. It fixes an issue with the RTP port detection and 2 other minor issues.

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